102-Year-Old May Be World’s Oldest Skydiver After Jumping For Charity

Irene O’Shea took the sky-high leap to raise money for the Motor Neurone Disease Association of South Australia.

Irene O’Shea may have just started skydiving two years ago
at the age of 100, but she is showing no signs of stopping now.

The 102-year-old great-grandmother of 11 attempted to break
the record for the world’s oldest skydiver after she leapt from a plane in
South Australia on Sunday. O’Shea completed the milestone jump to raise money
for Motor Neurone Disease Association of SA, or MNDSA, a nonprofit organization
that supports those who suffer from motor neuron disease.

O’Shea, whose daughter died of the disease at the age of 67,
was able to raise nearly $12,000 for the organization, according to the
Adelaide-based newspaper The Advertiser.

She is still raising money for the cause on GoFundMe.

SA Skydiving, a skydiving shop based in Wellington, assisted
O’Shea with her jump Sunday. The 102-year-old was challenging a previous record
held by Kenny Meyers, a New Jersey man who set the latest record in 2017 after
completing his jump in Sussex County.

When she set the record this weekend, O’Shea was 21 days
older than Meyers was when he set the record in 2017, The Advertiser reported.

This marks the third time O’Shea took the sky-high leap with
SA Skydiving. She completed her first jump with the company in 2016 on her
100th birthday. She returned again in 2017 for another jump, but used it to
raise funds for MND South Australia.

Matt “Teags” Teager of SA Skydiving told HuffPost that the
company is submitting O’Shea’s jump to Guinness World Records officials for
consideration.

“It’s a fantastic achievement by an incredible lady,” Teager
said in an email.

O’Shea is already thinking of doing the jump again ― and
again.

“Possibly I will jump next year, and, if I live long enough,
I’ll jump at 105,” she told The Advertiser.—Source: Carla Herreria / huffingtonpost.com